Quote collection
701 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell."
"Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god."
"She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying."
"The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it."
"The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand."
"Man is free the moment he wants to be."
"Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature."
"Friends should be preferred to kings."
"When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?"
"This is no time to make new enemies."
"The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment."
"No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet."
"If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer"
"The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs."
"You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."
"You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing."
"Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois"
"We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world."
"I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food."
"The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries."